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Kids love to be creative and nowhere is this more obvious than in a Makerspace or Arts & Crafts classroom. They can bring all kinds of ideas to life with the right Makerspace tools. Children’s safety scissors are ideal for the younger classes to prevent injury while students are honing their skills. Older classes can try more complicated projects with specialty left-handed scissors, bent scissors, pointed, or straight scissors.
For more detailed work, hobby knives and blades come in a variety of styles, shapes, and sizes. For a versatile collection, a comprehensive set of different blades that can all fit the same knife handle is a convenient way to ensure you always have the right size blade for any project. Plus, blade sets often come with their own storage box for easy organization. To protect your surfaces, self-healing cutting mats can be used with blades or rotary tools. These usually are marked with measurements, grids, and angles to help you get the most precise lines for your project.
High-quality woodworking projects will greatly benefit from a miter box and saw. These help ensure angled cuts are perfectly executed for the finest looking finished product your students could hope for.
Color
A drawing class will greatly benefit from a variety of pencils in various hardness levels for different types of projects. Artistic, pictorial drawings will look best with soft, black pencils with a B hardness rating. Typical writing pencils are in the 2B, HB, F, or H rating. Technical drawings, like architectural and landscape drawings, will do best with harder pencils in the H range.
Mechanical pencils are the one-size-fits-all solution for any classroom or project. Ensuring you have the right millimeter size and hardness level of refill leads will help keep projects running smoothly.
For adding a bit of color to your projects, colored pencils and washable markers are the go-to choice for students of any age. Permanent markers come with an ultra fine, fine, or chisel tip for several different uses.
Paints range from the versatile, washable variety, to tempera which is more similar to semi-permanent, to acrylic which is considered permanent. You’ll also need a variety of brushes in different shapes, sizes, and materials for achieving different effects in your classroom projects.
To get the best of both worlds, try paint markers or brush pens!
And Create!
To get even more creative, inspire imaginations with a variety of other Arts & Crafts or Makerspace items. Design your own Makerspace starter kit for a new classroom or younger learners. These can include the basics such as paper, cutting tools, writing utensils, and paint accessories. Advanced Makerspace kits may include airbrushing tools, magnifiers, rotary tools, stained glass irons, or wood burning kits.
No matter how you choose to encourage creativity, Midwest Technology Products is here to help! Our personable customer service and knowledge of school budgeting requirements make us the best choice for your district’s educational supply store.
